pirated games discussion thread

[Doctor Who]

Anyone who has bought all 4 of the games at full price have spent 240 dollars on them when the next game comes out they will have spent 300, thats way too much for a disk of data. I mean the disk costs less than 38 cents to create and the imprinting probably costs them 20 cents every 100 in electricity theyre spending less than 15 bucks packaging and creating these disks, way too much to spend on games.

It costs millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars to create a AAA game like MW3 (and if you don't know what AAA means it means one of the big franchise games, not an amazing game).

 

[Doctor Who]

cause its shit doesn't mean you have to condone pirating.

In fact why would you even pirate it if it's shit?

 

[DeathSod]

Also, ubisoft doesn't deserve any of the money the series gets them, there servers are complete shit :| my internet is okay but I cant get into one game :seriously:

 

[Cylosis]

Because of Steam, I have now purchased every PC game I've ever pirated.

Praise Gaben

 

[DeathSod]

Because of Steam, I have now purchased every PC game I've ever pirated.

Praise Gaben

Gaben? That bastard!? WHERE IS MY HALF LIFE 3!!!!!!

 

[Doctor Who]

Gaben? That bastard!? WHERE IS MY HALF LIFE 3!!!!!!

AND HE NEVER RESPONDS TO MY EMAILS!!!

 

[SgtGiraffe]

Gaben? That bastard!? WHERE IS MY HALF LIFE 3!!!!!!

he said it will be worth the wait so wait god damn it

 

[DaivdBaekr]

I don't think there's a game I've pirated that I didn't either buy later or had already owned at some point (with the exception of Skyrim, which I didn't meet minimum specs for so I deleted it shortly afterword). Not even bothering with pirating anymore because my ISP throttled us into oblivion every time I did.

Really if you've got the money to buy something, no reason to pirate it.

 

[mohawkg2]

Large parts of the culture these days exists in a world where copies are free. Copying a physical book costs money, but copying a digital movie is free. In fact, simply moving a movie from one hard drive to another actually copies the movie first, then deletes the original. Copying games is also free. No resources are lost, nobody loses any money, and more people are having fun.

To people who want to get paid for their digital works, myself included, that is a bit of a problem. All of society and economics is based on an old outdated model where giving something to someone would rid the original owner of their copy, so everyone who wanted a copy had to buy one from someone else who would lose theirs, and the only source of new copies was you. There might be actual development costs involved in making these copies. For example, for every wheel in the market, someone had to make that wheel. With digital copies, you only need to make the wheel once.

I won’t bother analyzing why people copy games and other digital media, as that’s really a moot point. We’ve got an amazingly effective way of distributing culture that is extremely beneficial for humanity, but it clashes with our current economical models. Piracy will win in the long run. It has to. The alternative is too scary.

If someone pirates Minecraft instead of buying it, it means I’ve lost some “potential” revenue. Not actual revenue, as I can never go into debt by people pirating the game too much, but I might’ve made even more if that person had bought the game instead. But what if that person likes that game, talks about it to his or her friends, and then I manage to convince three of them to buy the game? I’d make three actual sales instead of blocking out the potentially missed sale of the original person which never cost me any money in the first case.

Instead of just relying on guilt tripping pirates into buying, or wasting time and money trying to stop them, I can offer online-only services that actually add to the game experience. Online level saving, centralized skins, friends lists and secure name verification for multiplayer. None of these features can be accessed by people with pirated versions of the game, and hopefully they can be features that turn pirates from thieves into potential customers.

Please don’t interpret this text as me being fine with people pirating Minecraft. I’d MUCH rather have people pay for it so I can reinvest in hiring people and developing more cool games in the future. It’s also quite possible that if I get into a business deal with a larger company, there might be a larger push towards fighting piracy mostly because they’d require it, and I understand why they’d want that.

But why fight the biggest revolution in information flow since the printing press when you could easily work with it by adding services that actually add some value beyond the free act of making a digital copy?

 

[Perseus Dash Jackson]

I may or may not pirate pretty much all my games because I may or may not have NO MONEY and I may or may not be a cheap bastard.

 

[ViperStriker]

Why is this in the Minecraft Sub-Section, not the main section?

Also, only game I ever tried to pirate was Star Wars: Battlefront II for PC, but LucasArts was a shithead and wouldn't let me, so I just went ahead and bought it on Steam.

Praise GabeN.

 

[mohawkg2]

Why is this in the Minecraft Sub-Section, not the main section?

Also, only game I ever tried to pirate was Star Wars: Battlefront II for PC, but LucasArts was a shithead and wouldn't let me, so I just went ahead and bought it on Steam.

Praise GabeN.

Because at first it was Giraffe showing people how to pirate Minecraft but Ruelel is an anti-pirate so he went and took down the video and Giraffe changed the title and yea.

 

[ViperStriker]

Because at first it was Giraffe showing people how to pirate Minecraft but Ruelel is an anti-pirate so he went and took down the video and Giraffe changed the title and yea.

Oh, I see.

Well now that it's discussion, can it be moved to the main section?

 

[mohawkg2]

Oh, I see.

Well now that it's discussion, can it be moved to the main section?

Don't ask me I'm not a mod lol

 

[SarcasticWisdom]

Boo

 

[Jiggly❤]

The only reason you should pirate acquire Minecraft any game is if you have no money at the time and are willing to buy it later.
People who pirate just to pirate are assholes that kill good games.

That must mean I'm a asshole for pirating The Sims 3: Showtime! :(

 

[McGama]

lets break the law gaise! even better, lets write down how we break the law so that there's evidence that we break the law!

YEAH!! GOOD IDEAR MCGAMA

Edit: Turdy, I was being sarcastic.

 

[Dave the Manly]

Notch is a smart guy.

 

[Chief of Bears]

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Turdy. This thread reminded me. Thank you Sarcastic for the reminder.

 

[DeathSod]

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Turdy. This thread reminded me. Thank you Sarcastic for the reminder.

You dont like me? :( that hurts me so much